the THINGS ONE MUST NOT SAY ABOUT JESUS

“I’m trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him:  (they say) ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say.  A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher, he would either be a lunatic--on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the devil of hell. You must make your choice.  Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool. You can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” (C.S. Lewis)